What is it about people in law firms that steal other peoples things & lunches? Happened to me once - some idiot lawyer took my paper I laid down to read, with my beeper (long time ago) & lunch ON TOP OF IT. That means he MOVED by stuff to steal it. Lawyers are crooks....

4:08 pm October 30, 2007

Sadiq wrote:

LOL Hilary! Sometimes law students never grow out of 1L humor.

4:15 pm October 30, 2007

Jim Dandy wrote:

While the next President may be a lawyer, if Hillary is elected, will the President be a human?

4:19 pm October 30, 2007

Anonymous wrote:

Vote McCain!!

4:37 pm October 30, 2007

Hill Humor Rules wrote:

Jim D LOL!! LOL!!

Given the mess the current C-average so-called "MBA" president has created, maybe we need a lawyer next time. Or a judge. Or a PhD. Or a Nobel Prize winner.

4:46 pm October 30, 2007

Interpreting the Drawings wrote:

Hillary the Homemaker: Your husband and kids will love this pudding, ladies; I guarantee it!
John Edwards the Prom Priss: I also know many magic tricks. Yes, I take off my tie; on weekends I wear a sweater.
Barack: needy popular asexual guy. He's so niiiiicccee....
Rudy: I am so high right how.... I can't believe how high I am... this stuff is really good...You...are so... high...
Romney: What? Who me? (Oops.) I don't know anything. Nope, it wasn't me.
Fred Thompson: Didn't I have your grandfather in class? My students love me. The gum on my chair is just a joke.

4:59 pm October 30, 2007

Only one scores high on real intelligence, apparently. wrote:

Seems that Mr. Romney weighs in with the highest IQ of this bunch -- he got into a top law school, simultaneously did an MBA, and had the intelligence to tell the legal profession "no thanks -- I'd rather do something with my life".
And so he has.
The rest are a bunch of typical lawyer resume's.
Blah, blah, blah.

Wasn't Hillary a corporate partner at Rose Law Firm? Not a litigator as I recall.

6:37 pm October 30, 2007

Vote Barack wrote:

OBAMA!!

6:54 pm October 30, 2007

rudolph wrote:

America the beautiful.
Lawyers, Guns and Money.

7:03 pm October 30, 2007

Anon wrote:

Yes indeed, investment banking is really "doing something" with your life. Not like civil rights litigation. And that MBA proves Romney's intelligence just like GW's, in a way that Harvard Law Review never will. Mitt's our guy indeed, at least compared to under-achievers like Barack.

7:24 pm October 30, 2007

California Condor wrote:

Anon at 7:03,

I regret your comment. I invite you to re-read your comment and consider whether or not you meant to write it. I also invite you to publicly apologize for making such a comment.

Mitt Romney was one of the founders of a private equity firm, Bain Capital. In a free market, private equity helps grease the wheels of the market that enriches the lives of citizens. By providing venture capital, Romney allowed entrepreneurs to take risks and eventually create businesses that improved the quality of life of Americans. Romney was also a successful consultant, helping advise businesses how to better execute, cutting ineffeciency out of the economy and making life better for Americans through providing products and services at lower costs. Then he saved the Winter Olympics.

George W. Bush did none of this, so I find it distasteful that you equate the two merely because both gentlemen are credentialed with Harvard MBAs.

8:08 pm October 30, 2007

James K. Polk wrote:

Napoleon of the stump.

8:10 pm October 30, 2007

SLC Punk wrote:

Romney didn't save the 2002 Olympics--Rocky did.

Go, Rocky, go!

Mitt scares the bejeebus out of me.

8:28 pm October 30, 2007

California Condor wrote:

SLC Punk,

About a million people live in the metro Salt Lake area, but only about 180,000 of them live within Salt Lake city limits. Rocky Anderson is lucky that the moneyed Mormons lives in the posh suburbs rather than within Salt Lake boundaries otherwise he wouldn't have been elected. Being mayor of a city with a population of 180,000 is not that big of a deal. Romney was governor of a state with 6.4 million people. Do the math.

9:22 pm October 30, 2007

Hold it there, punk. wrote:

@ SLC Punk
Wait -- wasn't it Rocky Anderson, and his bribe scandal, that Romney was saving the Olympics from?

10:11 pm October 30, 2007

Dirk Raat wrote:

Yeahh... Hillary is really into cooking and recipies.
I am wondering what exactly got 'cooked', at a lunch, whilst seated next to Mr. J. Morton Davis. The founder of the D.H. Blair & Co criminal enterprise:http://www.milberglies.com/DHBlairHillaryClinton.jpg
Nothing to laugh about Mrs. Clinton!

I would vote for Obama!

10:04 am October 31, 2007

Convicts can't vote wrote:

Dirk - can we assume from your post -- i.e., that you "would" vote for Obama -- means that your felony conviction will keep you from the polls again this year?

11:05 am October 31, 2007

Dirk Raat wrote:

LOL @Convicts can't vote.
If you had done at least a little research...? I am a Dutchman living in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands. And according to my information, non-American residents carrying a Dutch passport are banned from voting Presidents in the U.S. Tell me, how hard is it for a Milberg Weiss apologist like you, not to become totally obsessed with subjects as: convicts. Well...?

12:40 pm October 31, 2007

Anonymous wrote:

what exactly are Obama's accomplishments again? he was a bit player in the Illinois senate-he certainly wasn't any sort of maverick or corruption fighter while here. law? business? what civil rights litigation was he involved in of significance? carrying Tony Rezko's water?

12:41 pm October 31, 2007

Clinton the 2nd wrote:

Hilarious Hillary!

1:17 pm October 31, 2007

A "legal education" does not a lawyer make as all clients know. wrote:

Mr. Lattman,

You should really stop with the journalistic dishonesty implicit in painting Mr. Romney via your teasing question as someone who had a legal career. Mr. Romney was a law student, got good grades, got a degree in law from Harvard, and told your profession to take a hike.
From my standpoint, what he did is get behind enemy lines, study the most dangerous social enemy our our times, and exit without joining the enemy's ranks.
Your attempt to give your readers a "feel good" experience that somehow a law education is a sine qua non of presidential candidacy is a big mistake, and one which could and should blow up in your face, covering you deservedly with much printer's ink.
Mr. Romney didn't have a legal "career".
So stop soiling him via twisted headlines.

2:05 pm October 31, 2007

anon wrote:

was anyone else amused by the description of the Rose law firm as a "tony regional firm." what a joke. if that was on fred thompson's resume, it would be described as being equivalent to The Firm. fact is, she failed the DC bar and had to move to little rock with her tail between her legs.

2:08 pm October 31, 2007

Boko Fittleworth wrote:

Wow, the Romney (paid professional) net"roots" are working overtime, fresh off their triumphant manipulation of the FRC straw poll.

That Hilary joke story is a little pat. Sounds like an urban legend kinda thing. I call BS.

6:56 am November 1, 2007

Deeply rooted in Boko Fittleworth's lawyerly paranoia. wrote:

Boko's paranoia and penchant for false accusations is one of the many classic traits of your sick, morally dead profession.
The only "roots" here are the rotting fungal roots reaching deeply into your shallow mind Boko Fittleworth.

7:26 pm November 1, 2007

sheerahkahn wrote:

"Comment by California Condor - October 30, 2007 at 7:24 pm'

Hmm, to me it seems you are making an extrapolation of Mr. Romney's participation in said ventures based on predicted results rather than participatory material facts.
What else can you present that would support your statement?

2:35 am November 2, 2007

Jaime Frontero wrote:

I used to believe lawyers amplified all the inherent ills of the political process.

But then, for the first time in our history - we got an MBA as President.

Live and learn...

11:19 am December 4, 2007

Wondering wrote:

So they all passed a test! Well at least most of them did. Can any of them be a leader? Do any of them know how to spell leadership? Can any of them bring together the collective psyche of the american public to move forward instead on pandering to their party hopefuls? Based on the choices given and other wanabees, there is no hope. Where have all the leaders gone?

8:09 am July 15, 2009

Kluvksdv wrote:

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